Jomo Kenyatta University will, from now on, suspend all students using ChatGPT during their examination sessions.

For starters, ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that uses natural language processing to create human-like conversational dialogue. First developed on November 30, 2022, it is based on a large language model and enables users to refine and steer a conversation towards a desired length, format, style, level of detail, and language.

It is literally like a computer that does exactly what you feed it to do; it regenerates the solutions to the questions you have no answers to.

The Jomo Kenyatta University Management Board released a statement urging students to refrain from using the chatbot or even think of walking inside an exam room with a smartphone or anything that might jeopardize their results, go against the examination ethics and conduct, or face the consequences of not doing so.

“You are hereby reminded of the possession and/or use of electronic gadgets such as mobile phones and MP3/MP4 players. iPod, blue tooth facility, or any other such unauthorized equipment in the examination venue is an examination irregularity under the University Common Examination Regulations and is punishable by suspension from the university for one academic year or stage.

Secondly, kindly take note that use of auto-coding software during an examination such as ChatGPT is a very serious offense under the University Examination Regulations and is punishable by expulsion from the university.” Part of the memorandum statement read: